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October 17, 2024
British Olympic diving champion Tom Daley is well-known for his love of knitting and now he’s teaming up with Woolmark to take this to new heights. He’ll grow to be Merino wool’s newest ambassador, “celebrating the process from farm-to-yarn”.
Tom Daley
Daley beforehand based Made With Love, a knitting and crocheting model “with a mission to inspire the next generation of crafters”.
And in his ambassadorial function, he’ll launch a set of Woolmark-certified knit kits, together with Merino wool yarns and knitting patterns, by way of Made With Love, in 2025.
Daley first took up knitting as a approach to take his thoughts off the stress of competing in the course of the Tokyo Olympics and each he and The Woolmark Firm are eager to emphasize the craft’s well being advantages.
He mentioned that knitting “is what grounds me, keeps me mindful and slows me down. Knitting with wool is the epitome of that; the soft texture and amazing natural properties allow it to temperature regulate, making it the perfect fibre for quality garments and homewares designed to last generations.”
And Woolmark cited a 2007 research carried out by Harvard Medical Faculty’s Thoughts and Physique Institute that discovered knitting lowers the center price, by a mean of 11 beats per minute, and induces an “enhanced state of calm”. It additionally cited a research from the UK’s Cardiff College claiming “significant psychological and social benefits” for knitting.
